In the News (Fri 9 Dec 16)

The second nymph named Ida or Idaea was a female divinity from the Phrygian Mount Ida in Troad.

This nymph, called in the ancient literature the Idean Mother, was associated with the Mother Goddess, because she was deeply related to some local mythological events.

Such stories tried to connect these older local pre-Hellenic beliefs in nature divinities (which were identified with the mountains, the rivers, the trees and the springs) with the Greek Olympian religion and its basic myths.

In 1972 and 1973 crossbreedings between the cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) and the cowberry (Vaccinium vitis idaea L.) were carried out to a large extent at the Institute for Fruit-Growing at the Technical University of Munich in Freising-Weihenstephan.

A report is given on the selection of crossing partners, pollination techniques, the preliminary crossing results and the sowing technique as well as the cultivation of seedlings.